He pleaded guilty Aug. 8 to first-degree assault and three counts of risk of injury to a minor.

The assault occurred Aug. 26, 2017, at the Econo Lodge in East Hartford. After beating his wife with a lamp, Masters drove onto Route 2 and crashed his vehicle. He then jumped from an overpass onto Pitkin Street, breaking a leg.

When he was taken to the hospital, he told police he had killed his wife and her body was in the motel room. Police rushed there and determined she was still alive. She suffered serious injuries in the assault, including wounds to her face, a broken jaw and a brain injury, and continues to recover, prosecutor Donna Mambrino told Hartford Superior Court Judge Laura F. Baldini.

The East Hartford assault followed an assault days earlier at the couple’s home in Plainfield. The risk of injury to a minor charges were for that incident because the couple’s three children were in the home at the time.